Buffy Season 8 is not for me

I just recently purchased the DVDs of Seasons 1 to 7 of buffy the vampire slayer. Half way through the collection i learned that a season 8 of the show was going to come out in comic book form. I haven't finished the DVDs yet but i already have the first five issues of the comics which i intend to read when i finish season 7. The Comic is written by Joss Whedon, the writer, director, and producer of the TV show. As i browsed through the comics that i purchased, i was quite disappointed to know that the art inside is way inferior from the really nice painted covers of the comic. I really expected to get killer art with a metal soundtrack from this book, but ended up with weak unrealistic art which never drew me in to the story.

I come from the school of thought that art and writing go hand in hand to make a book special. I know how Great art can get ruined by poor writing (Jim Lee's run on Superman) and vice versa, and how when a great art and great story telling come hand in hand, a true masterpiece is created ("Batman Hush" at least it was a masterpiece in my eyes). That being said, the buffy comic seems to still be selling well due to fans of the TV series and whedons other works as well. I have personally stopped purchasing the book after issue five as a new writer, albeit with a good writing pedigree, is set to takeover from Joss.

Dont think im a hater or a very superficial person by judging the book due to its art style, its just that money doesnt grow on trees and with the high prices of comics i expect to get good art and storytelling. Dont get me started on the Battlestar Galactica Comic or this post will never end. See ya!

Back in Black

After going through a series of shake ups in the past few years which includes spiderman's death and resurrection, Spidey has finally hit rock bottom. The Back in black arc is a direct result of what happened to Spiderman during the recently concluded Marvel Civil War event. Spiderman at the urging of Tony Stark, revealed his true identity in front of the worlds media to support the pro superhero registration act the government was instituting. The act called for all super powered beings to be registered with the government so that they can be monitored,and ultimately be held accountable for any actions that they perform.

After going against the anti government side a few times, spidey realized that he had done the wrong thing and went on the run along with MJ and Aunt May. Kingpin had him tracked down and hired an assassin to kill Spiderman. As the assassin fired his shot, Spiderman was able to evade it and the bullet ultimately hit aunt may. This led to a series of events where Peter Parker's image changed from a friendly neighborhood wall crawler, to a revenge seeking creature of the night. He later went on to break into the prison where kingpin was jailed, and gave the latter an ass whooping in front of the other inmates. He threatened that if any of his love one dies, he would be back for the kingpin.

The return to the black costume also coincided with the film, Spiderman 3 but the comics didn't really focus on the venom / sandman interactions as much as the movie did. For all of you who grew up with spiderman and probably lost interest in the late 90's (clone saga anyone?), back in black is a good first step to seeing the demise of the dark, gloomy spiderman as immediately after this arc, ONE MORE DAY is set to shatter the current image of the wall crawler and bring him back to his lighter, happy go lucky days. WEBS AWAY!!!